Adrian Edward Bailey (born 11 December 1945) is a retired British Labour and Co-operative politician.

[1] Bailey contested the seat of South Worcestershire at the 1970 general election, where he was easily defeated by Gerald Nabarro.

Bailey was not to fight a Parliamentary election again for 24 years, but contested and lost the Cheshire West European seat in 1979.

He was chosen to fight the seat and won fairly comfortably on 23 November 2000, entering the Commons 30 years after his first attempt.

He supported Owen Smith in the failed attempt to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the 2016 Labour Party (UK) leadership election.